Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit

ABSTRACT

A terminal apparatus receives a signal including indication information indicating initiation of a random access procedure from a base station apparatus. The terminal apparatus transmits the one or more random access preambles, based on the indication information. The terminal apparatus determines an antenna port to be used for transmission of the one or more random access preambles, based on information of the SRS resource included in the indication information.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a terminal apparatus, a base stationapparatus, a communication method, and an integrated circuit.

BACKGROUND ART

Technical studies and standardization of Long Term Evolution(LTE)-Advanced Pro and New Radio (NR) technology, as a radio accessscheme and a radio network technology for the fifth generation cellularsystems, are currently conducted in the Third Generation PartnershipProject (3GPP) (NPL 1).

The fifth generation cellular systems require three anticipatedscenarios for services: enhanced Mobile BroadBand (eMBB) that realizeshigh-speed and high-capacity transmission; Ultra-Reliable and LowLatency Communication (URLLC) that realizes low-latency andhigh-reliability communication; and massive Machine Type Communication(mMTC) that allows a large number of machine type devices to beconnected in a system such as Internet of Things (IoT).

In NR, technical studies of massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output(MIMO), in which a large number of antenna elements are used in highfrequency to secure coverage with a beamforming gain, are conducted (NPL2, NPL 3, and NPL 4).

CITATION LIST Non Patent Literature

-   NPL 1: RP-161214 NTT DOCOMO, “Revision of SI: Study on New Radio    Access Technology”, June 2016-   NPL 2: R1-162883 Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, “Basic    Principles for the 5G New Radio Access technology”, April, 2016-   NPL 3: R1-162380, Intel Corporation, “Overview of antenna technology    for new radio interface”, April, 2016-   NPL 4: R1-163215, Ericsson, “Overview of NR”, April, 2016

SUMMARY OF INVENTION Technical Problem

The present invention provides a terminal apparatus capable ofefficiently communicating with a base station apparatus, a base stationapparatus communicating with the terminal apparatus, a communicationmethod used for the terminal apparatus, and a communication method usedfor the base station apparatus. For example, the communication methodsused for the terminal apparatus and the base station apparatus mayinclude an uplink transmission method, a modulation method, and/or acoding method for achieving efficient communication, reducingcomplexity, and reducing interference between cells and/or betweenterminal apparatuses.

Solution to Problem

(1) According to some aspects of the present invention, the followingmeasures are provided. Specifically, a first aspect of the presentinvention is a terminal apparatus including a receiver configured toreceive a signal including indication information indicating initiationof a random access procedure from a base station apparatus, and atransmitter configured to transmit the one or more random accesspreambles, based on the indication information, wherein the transmitterdetermines an antenna port to be used for transmission of the one ormore random access preambles, based on information of an SRS resourceincluded in the indication information.

(2) A second aspect of the present invention is a base station apparatusincluding a control unit configured to generate indication informationindicating initiation of a random access procedure including informationof an SRS resource, a transmitter configured to transmit a signalincluding the indication information to a terminal apparatus, and areceiver configured to monitor a random access preamble based on theinformation of the SRS resource.

(3) A third aspect of the present invention is a communication methodused for a terminal apparatus, the communication method includingreceiving a signal including indication information indicatinginitiation of a random access procedure from a base station apparatus,transmitting the one or more random access preambles, based on theindication information, and determining an antenna port to be used fortransmission of the one or more random access preambles, based oninformation of an SRS resource included in the indication information.

(4) A fourth aspect of the present invention is a communication methodused for a base station apparatus, the communication method includinggenerating indication information indicating initiation of a randomaccess procedure including information of an SRS resource, transmittinga signal including the indication information to a terminal apparatus,and monitoring a random access preamble based on the information of theSRS resource.

(5) A fifth aspect of the present invention is an integrated circuitimplemented on a terminal apparatus, the integrated circuit causing theterminal apparatus to perform receiving a signal including indicationinformation indicating initiation of a random access procedure from abase station apparatus, transmitting the one or more random accesspreambles, based on the indication information, and determining anantenna port to be used for transmission of the one or more randomaccess preambles, based on information of an SRS resource included inthe indication information.

(6) A sixth aspect of the present invention is an integrated circuitimplemented on a base station apparatus, the integrated circuit causingthe base station apparatus to perform generating indication informationindicating initiation of a random access procedure including informationof an SRS resource, transmitting a signal including the indicationinformation to a terminal apparatus, and monitoring a random accesspreamble based on the information of the SRS resource.

Advantageous Effects of Invention

According to the present invention, a terminal apparatus and a basestation apparatus can efficiently communicate with each other and/orreduce complexity.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of a radio communication system accordingto an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a schematic configurationof a downlink slot according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a relationship in the time domainbetween a subframe, a slot, and a mini-slot according to the embodimentof the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating examples of a slot or a subframeaccording to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of beamforming according tothe embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a concept that multiple referencesignals to which transmit beams are applied are transmitted in one ormore cells according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a synchronization signalblock and a synchronization signal burst set according to the presentembodiment according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of randomaccess configuration information according to the embodiment of thepresent invention.

FIG. 9 is a conceptual diagram of transmission and/or reception ofmultiple messages between a terminal apparatus 1 and a base stationapparatus 3 in a random access procedure according to the embodiment ofthe present invention.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of random access preambletransmission processing of the terminal apparatus 1 according to theembodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating an example of random access preamblereception processing of the base station apparatus 3 according to theembodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating another example of random accesspreamble transmission processing of the terminal station apparatus 1according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart illustrating another example of random accesspreamble reception processing of the base station apparatus 3 accordingto the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a schematic block diagram illustrating a configuration of theterminal apparatus 1 according to the embodiment of the presentinvention.

FIG. 15 is a schematic block diagram illustrating a configuration of thebase station apparatus 3 according to the embodiment of the presentinvention.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below.

LTE (and LTE-Advanced Pro) and NR may be defined as different RadioAccess Technologies (RATs). NR may be defined as a technology includedin LTE. The present embodiment may be applied to NR, LTE and other RATs.Terms associated with LTE are used in the following description.However, the present invention may also be applied to other technologiesusing other terms.

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of a radio communication system accordingto an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the radiocommunication system includes a terminal apparatus 1A, a terminalapparatus 1B, and a base station apparatus 3. The terminal apparatus 1Aand the terminal apparatus 1B are also referred to as a terminalapparatus 1.

The terminal apparatus 1 may also be referred to as a mobile stationapparatus, a User Equipment (UE), a communication terminal, a mobiledevice, a terminal, a Mobile Station (MS), or the like. The base stationapparatus 3 may also be referred to as a radio base station apparatus, abase station, a radio base station, a fixed station, a Node B (NB), anevolved Node B (eNB), an NR Node B (NR NB), a next generation Node B(gNB), an access point, a Base Transceiver Station (BTS), a Base Station(BS), or the like. The base station apparatus 3 may include a corenetwork apparatus. The base station apparatus 3 may include one or moretransmission reception points (TRPs) 4. At least a part offunctionality/processing of the base station apparatus 3 described belowmay be functionality/processing of each transmission reception point 4included in the base station apparatus 3. The base station apparatus 3may have a communicable range (communication area), controlled by thebase station apparatus 3, that includes one or more cells to serve theterminal apparatus 1. The base station apparatus 3 may have acommunicable range (communication area), controlled by one or moretransmission reception points 4, that includes one or more cells toserve the terminal apparatus 1. One cell may be divided into multipleBeamed areas, and the terminal apparatus 1 may be served in each of theBeamed areas. Here, a beamed area may be identified based on a beamindex or a precoding index used for beamforming.

The communication area covered by the base station apparatus 3 may bedifferent in size and shape for each frequency. The covered area may bedifferent for each frequency. A radio network, in which cells havingdifferent types of base station apparatuses 3 and different cell radiicoexist on the same frequency or different frequencies to form onecommunication system, is referred to as a heterogeneous network.

A radio communication link from the base station apparatus 3 to theterminal apparatus 1 is referred to as a downlink. A radio communicationlink from the terminal apparatus 1 to the base station apparatus 3 isreferred to as an uplink. A radio communication link from the terminalapparatus 1 to another terminal apparatus 1 is referred to as asidelink.

In FIG. 1, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) includingCyclic Prefix (CP), Single-Carrier Frequency Division Multiplexing(SC-FDM), Discrete Fourier Transform Spread OFDM (DFT-S-OFDM), andMulti-Carrier Code Division Multiplexing (MC-CDM) may be employed forradio communication between the terminal apparatus 1 and the basestation apparatus 3 and/or the radio communication between the terminalapparatus 1 and another terminal apparatus 1.

In FIG. 1, in the radio communication between the terminal apparatus 1and the base station apparatus 3 and/or the radio communication betweenthe terminal apparatus 1 and another terminal apparatus 1,Universal-Filtered Multi-Carrier (UFMC), Filtered OFDM (F-OFDM), OFDM inwhich a window is multiplied (Windowed OFDM), and Filter-BankMulti-Carrier (FBMC) may be used.

Note that the present embodiment will be described, using OFDM symbolswith the assumption that a transmission scheme is OFDM. However, use ofany other transmission scheme is also included in the present invention.For example, OFDM symbols in the present embodiment may be SC-FDMsymbols (which may also be referred to as Single-Carrier FrequencyDivision Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) symbols).

In FIG. 1, the aforementioned transmission scheme that uses no CP oruses zero padding instead of the CP may be employed for the radiocommunication between the terminal apparatus 1 and the base stationapparatus 3 and/or the radio communication between the terminalapparatus 1 and another terminal apparatus 1. The CP or zero padding maybe added to both of the beginning and the end.

According to the present embodiment, one or more serving cells areconfigured for the terminal apparatus 1. The multiple configured servingcells include one Primary Cell (also referred to as a PCell) and one ormore Secondary Cells (also referred to as SCell(s)). The primary cell isa serving cell in which an initial connection establishment procedurehas been performed, a serving cell in which a connectionre-establishment procedure has been initiated, or a cell indicated as aprimary cell during a handover procedure. One or more secondary cellsmay be configured at a point of time when or after a Radio ResourceControl (RRC) connection is established. Note that the multipleconfigured serving cells may include one primary secondary cell (alsoreferred to as a Primary SCell or a PSCell). The primary secondary cellmay be a secondary cell in which control information can be transmittedin an uplink, out of one or multiple secondary cells in which theterminal apparatus 1 is configured. For the terminal apparatus 1, asubset of two types serving cells, i.e., a Master Cell Group (alsoreferred to as an MCG) and a Secondary Cell Group (also referred to asan SCG), may be configured. The master cell group includes one primarycell and zero or more secondary cells. The secondary cell group includesone primary secondary cell and zero or more secondary cells.

Time Division Duplex (TDD) and/or Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) may beapplied to the radio communication system according to the presentembodiment. The Time Division Duplex (TDD) scheme or the FrequencyDivision Duplex (FDD) scheme may be applied to all of the multiplecells. Cells to which the TDD scheme is applied and cells to which theFDD scheme is applied may be aggregated.

A carrier corresponding to a serving cell in the downlink is referred toas a downlink component carrier (or a downlink carrier). A carriercorresponding to a serving cell in the uplink is referred to as anuplink component carrier (or an uplink carrier). A carrier correspondingto a serving cell in the sidelink is referred to as a sidelink componentcarrier (or a sidelink carrier). The downlink component carrier, theuplink component carrier, and/or the sidelink component carrier arecollectively referred to as a component carrier (or a carrier).

Physical channels and physical signals according to the presentembodiment will be described. Note that the downlink physical channeland/or the downlink physical signal may be collectively referred to as adownlink signal. The uplink physical channel and/or the uplink physicalsignal may be collectively referred to as an uplink signal. The downlinkphysical channel and/or the uplink physical channel may be collectivelyreferred to as a physical channel. The downlink physical signal and/orthe uplink physical signal may be collectively referred to as a physicalsignal.

In FIG. 1, the following downlink physical channels are used for thedownlink radio communication between the terminal apparatus 1 and thebase station apparatus 3. The downlink physical channels are used totransmit information output from the higher layer.

-   -   New Radio Physical Broadcast CHannel (NR-PBCH)    -   New Radio Physical Downlink Control CHannel (NR-PDCCH)    -   New Radio Physical Downlink Shared CHannel (NR-PDSCH)

The NR-PBCH is used for the base station apparatus 3 to broadcast anessential information block (Master Information Block: MIB, EssentialInformation Block: EIB) including essential system information(Essential information) required by the terminal apparatus 1. Here, oneor more essential information blocks may be transmitted as essentialinformation message(s). For example, the essential information block mayinclude information indicating a part or all of frame numbers (SystemFrame Numbers (SFNs)) (for example, information of location in asuperframe including multiple frames). For example, a radio frame (10ms) includes 10 subframes each having 1 ms, and is identified by a framenumber. The frame number wraps around to 0 at 1024. In a case where adifferent essential information block is transmitted for each regionwithin a cell, information for enabling identification of the region(for example, identifier information of a downlink transmit beam forconfiguring the region) may be included. Here, the identifierinformation of the downlink transmit beam may be indicated by using adownlink transmit beam (precoding) index. In a case where a differentessential information block (essential information message) istransmitted for each region within the cell, information for enablingidentification of a time location within the frame (for example, asubframe number in which the essential information block (essentialinformation message) is included) may be included. That is, informationfor determining each of the subframe numbers in which the respectiveessential information blocks (essential information messages) usingdifferent downlink transmit beam indexes are transmitted may beincluded. For example, information necessary for connection to the celland for mobility may be included in the essential information.

In a case of downlink radio communication (radio communication from thebase station apparatus 3 to the terminal apparatus 1), the NR-PDCCH isused to transmit Downlink Control Information (DCI). Here, one or moreDCI (which may be referred to as DCI format(s)) are defined fortransmission of the downlink control information. In other words, afield for the downlink control information is defined as DCI, and ismapped to information bits.

For example, as the DCI, DCI including information indicating a timingfor transmitting HARQ-ACK for a scheduled NR-PDSCH (for example, thenumber of symbols from the last symbol included in the NR-PDSCH to thesymbol for transmission of the HARQ-ACK) may be defined.

For example, as the DCI, DCI used for the scheduling of one downlinkradio communication NR-PDSCH in one cell (transmission of one downlinktransport block) may be defined.

For example, as the DCI, DCI used for the scheduling of one uplink radiocommunication NR-PUSCH in one cell (transmission of one uplink transportblock) may be defined.

Here, the DCI includes information about the scheduling of the NR-PDSCHor the NR-PUSCH. Here, the DCI for the downlink is also referred to asdownlink grant or downlink assignment. Here, the DCI for the uplink isalso referred to as uplink grant or Uplink assignment.

The NR-PDSCH is used to transmit downlink data (Downlink Shared CHannel(DL-SCH)) from a medium access (Medium Access Control (MAC)). TheNR-PDSCH is also used to transmit System Information (SI), a RandomAccess Response (RAR), and the like.

Here, the base station apparatus 3 and the terminal apparatus 1 exchange(transmit and/or receive) signals with each other in their respectivehigher layers. For example, the base station apparatus 3 and theterminal apparatus 1 may transmit and/or receive Radio Resource Control(RRC) signaling (also referred to as Radio Resource Control (RRC)message or Radio Resource Control (RRC) information) in a Radio ResourceControl (RRC) layer. The base station apparatus 3 and the terminalapparatus 1 may transmit and/or receive a Medium Access Control (MAC)control element in a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer. Here, the RRCsignaling and/or the MAC control element is also referred to as higherlayer signaling. The higher layer herein means higher layer(s) as seenfrom the physical layer, and may therefore include one or more of a MAClayer, an RRC layer, an RLC layer, a PDCP layer, and a NAS layer, forexample. For example, the higher layer in the processing of a MAC layermay include one or more of an RRC layer, an RLC layer, a PDCP layer, anda NAS layer, for example.

The NR-PDSCH may also be used to transmit the RRC signaling and the MACcontrol element (Medium Access Control Control Element (MAC CE)). Here,the RRC signaling transmitted from the base station apparatus 3 may besignaling common to multiple terminal apparatuses 1 in a cell. The RRCsignaling transmitted from the base station apparatus 3 may be signalingdedicated to a certain terminal apparatus 1 (also referred to asdedicated signaling). In other words, terminal apparatus-specific(UE-specific) information may be transmitted through signaling dedicatedto a certain terminal apparatus 1.

In FIG. 1, the following downlink physical signals are used for downlinkradio communication. Here, the downlink physical signals are not used totransmit the information output from the higher layers, but are used bythe physical layer.

-   -   Synchronization signal (SS)    -   Reference Signal (RS)

The synchronization signal is used for the terminal apparatus 1 toestablish synchronization in a frequency domain and a time domain in thedownlink. The synchronization signal may include a PrimarySynchronization Signal (PSS) and a Secondary Synchronization Signal(SSS). The synchronization signal may be used for the terminal apparatus1 to identify a Cell Identifier (cell ID). The synchronization signalmay also be used to select/identify/determine a downlink transmit beamto be used by the base station apparatus 3 for downlink beamforming,and/or a downlink receive beam to be used by the terminal apparatus 1.In other words, the synchronization signal may be used to allow theterminal apparatus 1 to select/identify/determine the index of thedownlink transmit beam applied to the downlink signal by the basestation apparatus 3. Note that the synchronization signal, the primarysynchronization signal, and the secondary synchronization signal used inNR may be referred to as NR-SS, NR-PSS, and NR-SSS, respectively.

The downlink reference signal (hereinafter also simply referred to as areference signal in the present embodiment) may be classified intomultiple reference signals, based on applications and the like. Forexample, one or more of the following reference signals may be used forthe reference signal.

-   -   Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS)    -   Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS)    -   Phrase Tracking Reference Signal (PTRS)    -   Mobility Reference Signal (MRS)

The DMRS may be used for channel compensation during demodulation of areceived modulated signal. Regarding the DMRS, a DMRS for demodulatingthe NR-PDSCH, a DMRS for demodulating the NR-PDCCH, and/or a DMRS fordemodulating the NR-PBCH may be collectively referred to as a DMRS, ormay be individually defined.

The CSI-RS may be used for channel state measurement. The PTRS may beused to track phase according to movement of the terminal or the like.The MRS may be used to measure quality of reception from multiple basestation apparatuses for handover.

The reference signal may be defined as a reference signal forcompensating for phase noise.

Note that a function of at least a part of the multiple referencesignals may be provided in another reference signal.

At least one of the multiple reference signals or another referencesignal may be defined as a Cell-specific reference signal (CRS)individually configured for a cell, a Beam-specific reference signal(BRS) for each transmit beam used by the base station apparatus 3 or thetransmission reception point 4, and/or a UE-specific reference signal(URS) individually configured for the terminal apparatus 1.

At least one reference signal may be used for a numerology such as aradio parameter or subcarrier spacing, or used for such Finesynchronization that allows FFT window synchronization or the like to beachieved.

At least one reference signal may also be used for Radio ResourceMeasurement (RRM). At least one reference signal may also be used forbeam management.

A synchronization signal may also be used for at least one referencesignal.

In FIG. 1, in uplink radio communication between the terminal apparatus1 and the base station apparatus 3 (radio communication from theterminal apparatus 1 to the base station apparatus 3), the followinguplink physical channels are used. The uplink physical channels are usedto transmit information output from the higher layer.

-   -   New Radio Physical Uplink Control CHannel (NR-PUCCH)    -   New Radio Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (NR-PUSCH)    -   New Radio Physical Random Access CHannel (NR-PRACH)

The NR-PUCCH is used to transmit Uplink Control Information (UCI). Here,the uplink control information may include Channel State Information(CSI) used to indicate a downlink channel state. The uplink controlinformation may include Scheduling Request (SR) used to request anUL-SCH resource. The uplink control information may include HybridAutomatic Repeat request ACKnowledgment (HARQ-ACK). The HARQ-ACK mayindicate a HARQ-ACK for downlink data (Transport block, Medium AccessControl Protocol Data Unit (MAC PDU), or Downlink-Shared Channel(DL-SCH)).

The NR-PUSCH is used to transmit uplink data (Uplink Shared CHannel(UL-SCH)) from Medium Access Control (MAC). The NR-PUSCH may be used totransmit HARQ-ACK and/or CSI along with the uplink data. The NR-PUSCHmay be used to transmit the CSI only or the HARQ-ACK and CSI only. Inother words, the NR-PUSCH may be used to transmit the UCI only.

The NR-PUSCH may be used to transmit the RRC signaling and the MACcontrol element. Here, the NR-PUSCH may be used to transmit UECapability in the uplink.

Note that the same term (for example, NR-PCCH) and the same channeldefinition may be used for the NR-PDCCH and the NR-PUCCH. The same term(for example, NR-PSCH) and the same channel definition may be used forthe NR-PDSCH and the NR-PUSCH.

In FIG. 1, the following uplink physical signal is used in the uplinkradio communication. Here, the uplink physical signal is not used totransmit information output from the higher layers, but is used by thephysical layer.

-   -   Uplink Reference Signal (UL RS)

According to the present embodiment, the following two types of uplinkreference signals are used.

-   -   Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS)    -   Sounding Reference Signal (SRS)

The base station apparatus 3 uses the DMRS in order to perform channelcompensation of the NR-PUSCH or the NR-PUCCH. Transmission of both ofthe NR-PUSCH and the DMRS is hereinafter referred to simply astransmission of the NR-PUSCH. Transmission of both of the NR-PUCCH andthe DMRS is hereinafter referred to simply as transmission of theNR-PUCCH.

The base station apparatus 3 uses the SRS in order to measure an uplinkchannel state.

The NR-PRACH may be used to transmit a random access preamble. TheNR-PRACH may be used to indicate the initial connection establishmentprocedure, the handover procedure, the connection re-establishmentprocedure, synchronization (timing adjustment) for uplink transmission,and a request for an NR-PUSCH (UL-SCH) resource.

The subframe will be described below. The subframe in the presentembodiment may also be referred to as a resource unit, a radio frame, atime period, a time interval, or the like.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a schematic configurationof a downlink slot according to the embodiment of the present invention.Each of the radio frames is 10 ms in length. Each of the radio framesincludes 10 subframes and X slots. In other words, the length of onesubframe is 1 ms. For each of the slots, time length is defined based onsubcarrier spacings. For example, in a case where the subcarrier spacingof an OFDM symbol is 15 kHz and Normal Cyclic Prefixes (NCPs) are used,X=7 or X=14, and X=7 and X=14 correspond to 0.5 ms and 1 ms,respectively. In a case where the subcarrier spacing is 60 kHz, X=7 orX=14, and X=7 and X=14 correspond to 0.125 ms and 0.25 ms, respectively.FIG. 2 illustrates a case of X=7 as an example. Note that a case of X=14can be similarly configured by expanding the case of X=7. The uplinkslot is defined similarly, and the downlink slot and the uplink slot maybe defined separately.

The signal or the physical channel transmitted in each of the slots maybe represented by a resource grid. The resource grid is defined bymultiple subcarriers and multiple OFDM symbols. The number ofsubcarriers constituting one slot depends on each of the downlink anduplink bandwidths of a cell. Each element within the resource grid isreferred to as a resource element. The resource element may beidentified by using a subcarrier number and an OFDM symbol number.

A resource block is used to represent mapping of a certain physicaldownlink channel (such as the PDSCH) or a certain physical uplinkchannel (such as the PUSCH) to resource elements. As the resource block,a virtual resource block and a physical resource block are defined. Acertain physical uplink channel is first mapped to a virtual resourceblock. Thereafter, the virtual resource block is mapped to a physicalresource block. In a case where the number X of OFDM symbols included ina slot is 7 and NCPs are used, one physical resource block is defined by7 consecutive OFDM symbols in the time domain and by 12 consecutivesubcarriers in the frequency domain. Hence, one physical resource blockincludes (7×12) resource elements. In a case of Extended CPs (ECPs), onephysical resource block is defined, for example, by 6 consecutive OFDMsymbols in the time domain and by 12 consecutive subcarriers in thefrequency domain. Hence, one physical resource block includes (6×12)resource elements. In this case, one physical resource block correspondsto one slot in the time domain, and corresponds to 180 kHz in thefrequency domain. Physical resource blocks are numbered from 0 in thefrequency domain.

Next, a subframe, a slot, and a mini-slot will be described. FIG. 3 is adiagram illustrating the relationship in the time domain between thesubframe, the slot, and the mini-slot. As illustrated in FIG. 3, threetypes of time units are defined. The subframe is 1 ms regardless of thesubcarrier spacing. The number of OFDM symbols included in the slot is 7or 14, and the slot length depends on the subcarrier spacing. Here, in acase where the subcarrier spacing is 15 kHz, 14 OFDM symbols areincluded in one subframe. Thus, with the assumption that the subcarrierspacing is Δf (kHz), the slot length may be defined as 0.5/(Δf/15) ms ina case where the number of OFDM symbols constituting one slot is 7.Here, Δf may be defined by subcarrier spacing (kHz). In a case where thenumber of OFDM symbols constituting one slot is 7, the slot length maybe defined as 1/(Δf/15) ms. Here, Δf may be defined by subcarrierspacing (kHz). Furthermore, the slot length may be defined asX/14/(Δf/15) ms, where X is the number of OFDM symbols included in theslot.

The mini-slot (which may be referred to as a sub-slot) is a time unitincluding OFDM symbols that are less in number than the OFDM symbolsincluded in the slot. FIG. 3 illustrates a case where the mini-slotincludes two OFDM symbols as an example. The OFDM symbols in themini-slot may match the timing for the OFDM symbols constituting theslot. Note that the minimum unit of scheduling may be a slot or amini-slot.

FIG. 4 illustrates examples of a slot or a subframe. Here, a case wherethe slot length is 0.5 ms at a subcarrier spacing of 15 kHz isillustrated as an example. In FIG. 4, D represents the downlink, and Urepresents the uplink. As illustrated in FIG. 4, during a certain timeperiod (for example, the minimum time period to be allocated to one UEin the system), the subframe may include one or more of the following:

-   -   downlink part (duration),    -   gap, and    -   uplink part (duration).

In a subframe (a) of FIG. 4, the entire subframe is used for downlinktransmission during a certain time period (which may be referred to as aminimum unit of a time resource that can be allocated to one UE, or atime unit, for example. Multiple minimum units of a time resource thatare bundled may be referred to as a time unit.). In a subframe (b) ofFIG. 4, an uplink is scheduled via the NR-PDCCH by using the first timeresource, for example, and an uplink signal is transmitted after a gapfor a processing delay of the NR-PDCCH, a time for switching from adownlink to an uplink, and generation of a transmit signal. In asubframe (c) of FIG. 4, the downlink NR-PDCCH and/or the downlinkNR-PDSCH is transmitted by using the first time resource, and theNR-PUSCH or the NR-PUCCH is transmitted after a gap for a processingdelay, a time for switching from a downlink to an uplink, and generationof a transmit signal. Here, as an example, the uplink signal may be usedto transmit the HARQ-ACK and/or CSI, namely, the UCI. In a subframe (d)of FIG. 4, the NR-PDCCH and/or the NR-PDSCH is transmitted by using thefirst time resource, and the NR-PUSCH and/or the NR-PUCCH is transmittedafter a gap for a processing delay, a time for switching from a downlinkto an uplink, and generation of a transmit signal. Here, as an example,the uplink signal may be used to transmit the uplink data, namely, theUL-SCH. In a subframe (e) of FIG. 4, the entire subframe is used foruplink transmission (NR-PUSCH or NR-PUCCH).

The above-described downlink part and uplink part may include multipleOFDM symbols, similarly to the case with LTE.

Beamforming, beam management, and/or beam sweeping according to theembodiment of the present invention will be described.

Beamforming performed on the transmission side (which is the basestation apparatus 3 in the case of a downlink, and the terminalapparatus 1 in the case of an uplink) is a method of controlling, in ananalogue or digital manner, the amplitude and the phase of a signal foreach of multiple transmit antenna elements to transmit the signal with ahigh transmit antenna gain in a selected direction, and a field patternthereof is referred to as a transmit beam. Beamforming performed on thereception side (which is the terminal apparatus 1 in the case of adownlink, and the base station apparatus 3 in the case of an uplink) isa method of controlling, in an analogue or digital manner, the amplitudeand the phase of a signal for each of multiple receive antenna elementsto receive the signal with a high receive antenna gain in a selecteddirection, and a field pattern thereof is referred to as a receive beam.Beam management may be operation of the base station apparatus 3 and/orthe terminal apparatus 1 for matching directivity of a transmit beamand/or a receive beam, and obtaining a beam gain.

FIG. 5 illustrates an example of beamforming. Multiple antenna elementsare connected to one Transceiver unit (TXRU) 50. The phase is controlledby using a phase shifter 51 for each antenna element and a transmissionis performed from an antenna element 52, thus allowing a beam for atransmit signal to be directed in any direction. Typically, the TXRU 50may be defined as an antenna port, and only the antenna port may bedefined for the terminal apparatus 1. Controlling the phase shifter 51allows setting of directivity in any direction. Thus, the base stationapparatus 3 can communicate with the terminal apparatus 1 by using ahigh gain beam.

The beamforming may be referred to as virtualization, precoding, andmultiplication with a weight, for example. Simply, a signal itselftransmitted by using beamforming may be referred simply to as a transmitbeam.

In the present embodiment, a transmit beam used by the terminalapparatus 1 in uplink transmit beamforming is referred to as an uplinktransmit beam (UL Tx beam), and a receive beam used by the base stationapparatus 3 in uplink receive beamforming is referred to as an uplinkreceive beam (UL Rx beam). Note that the uplink transmit beam may bereferred to as transmit spatial filter configuration in the terminalapparatus 1, and the uplink receive beam may be referred to as receivespatial filter configuration in the base station apparatus 3. A transmitbeam used by the base station apparatus 3 in downlink transmitbeamforming is referred to as a downlink transmit beam (DL Tx beam), anda receive beam used by the terminal apparatus 1 in downlink receivebeamforming is referred to as a downlink receive beam (DL Rx beam). Notethat the downlink transmit beam may be referred to as transmit spatialfilter configuration in the base station apparatus 3, and the downlinkreceive beam may be referred to as receive spatial filter configurationin the terminal apparatus 1. Note that the uplink transmit beam and theuplink receive beam may be collectively referred to as an uplink beam,and the downlink transmit beam and the downlink receive beam may becollectively referred to as a downlink beam. Note that processingperformed by the terminal apparatus 1 for uplink beamforming may bereferred to as uplink transmit beam processing or uplink precoding, andprocessing performed by the base station apparatus 3 for uplinkbeamforming may be referred to as uplink receive beam processing. Notethat processing performed by the terminal apparatus 1 for downlinkbeamforming may be referred to as downlink receive beam processing, andprocessing performed by the base station apparatus 3 for downlinkbeamforming may be referred to as downlink transmit beam processing ordownlink precoding.

Note that the base station apparatus 3 may transmit a signal by usingmultiple downlink transmit beams in one OFDM symbol. For example, theantenna element of the base station apparatus 3 may be divided intosubarrays to perform downlink beamforming different for each of thesubarrays. Downlink beamforming may be performed to be different foreach polarization by using a polarization antenna. Similarly, theterminal apparatus 1 may transmit a signal by using multiple uplinktransmit beams in one OFDM symbol.

Note that, in the present embodiment, a case where the base stationapparatus 3 switches multiple downlink transmit beams to use themultiple downlink transmit beams in a cell served by the base stationapparatus 3 and/or the transmission reception point 4 is described.However, an individual cell may be configured for each downlink transmitbeam.

The beam management according to the present embodiment may include thefollowing operations.

-   -   Beam selection    -   Beam refinement    -   Beam recovery

For example, the beam selection may be an operation for selecting a beamin communication between the base station apparatus 3 and the terminalapparatus 1. The beam refinement may be an operation for selecting abeam having a higher gain, or changing a beam to an optimum beam betweenthe base station apparatus 3 and the terminal apparatus 1 according tothe movement of the terminal apparatus 1. The beam recovery may be anoperation for re-selecting a beam in a case where the quality of acommunication link is degraded due to blockage caused by a blockingobject, a passing of a human being, or the like in communication betweenthe base station apparatus 3 and the terminal apparatus 1. The aboveoperations are not limited to the above purposes. The base stationapparatus 3 performs beam management in a variety of conditions, and cantherefore exert an effect without limiting the purpose.

For example, a reference signal (for example, CSI-RS) or QuasiCo-Location (QCL) assumption may be used for the terminal apparatus 1 toselect the transmit beam for the base station apparatus 3.

In a case where a Long Term Property of a channel on which one symbol inone antenna port is carried may be estimated from a channel on which onesymbol in another antenna port is carried, these two antenna ports aresaid to be quasi co-located (QCL). The long term property of a channelincludes one or more of a delay spread, a Doppler spread, a Dopplershift, an average gain, and an average delay. For example, in a casewhere antenna port 1 and antenna port 2 are quasi co-located (QCL) withrespect to the average delay, this means that a reception timing for theantenna port 2 may be estimated from a reception timing for the antennaport 1.

The QCL may also be expanded to beam management. For this purpose,spatially expanded QCL may be newly defined. For example, one or more ofthe following may be further included in addition to the above, as Longterm property of a channel in the spatial QCL assumption.

-   -   Angle of Arrival (AoA), Zenith angle of Arrival (ZoA)), or the        like in a radio link or a channel, and/or its Angle Spread (for        example, Angle Spread of Arrival (ASA) and Zenith angle Spread        of Arrival (ZSA))    -   Transmission angle (AoD, ZoD, or the like) in a radio link or a        channel, and/or its Angle Spread (for example, Angle Spread of        Departure (ASD) and Zenith angle Spread of Departure (ZSS))    -   Spatial Correlation

According to this method, operation of the base station apparatus 3 andthe terminal apparatus 1 equivalent to beam management may be defined asbeam management, based on the spatial QCL assumption and radio resources(time and/or frequency).

Note that an antenna port may be assigned to each of the precodingprocesses or each of the transmit beams. For example, a signal to betransmitted by using a different precoding process or a signal to betransmitted by using a different transmit beam according to the presentembodiment may be defined as a signal to be transmitted through one ormore different antenna ports. Note that the antenna port is defined asan antenna port that allows a channel on which a certain symbol istransmitted through a certain antenna port to be inferred from a channelon which another symbol is transmitted through the same antenna port.The same antenna port may also mean that the antenna port number (thenumber for identifying an antenna port) is the same. Multiple antennaports may constitute an antenna port set. The same antenna port set mayalso mean that the antenna port set number (the number for identifyingan antenna port set) is the same. Transmission of a signal by applying adifferent uplink transmit beam may also mean transmission of a signalthrough a different antenna port or a different antenna port setincluding multiple antenna ports. A beam index may be an OFDM symbolnumber, an antenna port number, or an antenna port set number.

A complex modulation symbol for one or more layers generated by layermapping is input into transform precoding. The transform precoding maybe processing for dividing a block of complex-valued symbols into setsfor each layer corresponding to one OFDM symbol. In a case where theOFDM is used, processing of Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) in thetransform precoding may not be necessary. In the precoding, the block ofvectors obtained from a transform precoder may be input to generate ablock of vectors to be mapped to a resource element. In a case ofspatial multiplexing, one of precoding matrices may be adapted ingenerating the block of vectors to be mapped to a resource element. Thisprocessing may be referred to as digital beamforming. The precoding maybe defined to include analog beamforming and digital beamforming, or maybe defined as digital beamforming. The beamforming may be applied to aprecoded signal, and the precoding may be applied to a signal to whichthe beamforming is applied. The beamforming may include analogbeamforming and may not include digital beamforming, or may include bothdigital beamforming and analog beamforming. A beamformed signal, aprecoded signal, or a beamformed and precoded signal may be referred toas a beam. A beam index may be a precoding matrix index. The beam indexand the precoding matrix index may be defined independently. Theprecoding matrix indicated by the precoding matrix index may be appliedto the beam indicated by the beam index to generate a signal. Thebeamforming indicated by the beam index may be applied to the signal towhich the precoding matrix indicated by the precoding matrix index isapplied, to generate a signal. The digital beamforming may includeadaptation of a different precoding matrix to a resource in a frequencydirection (for example, a set of subcarriers).

Note that, in the present embodiment, a radio link configured by using aprescribed transmit beam and/or a prescribed receive beam may bereferred to as a beam pair link. For example, in the downlink, a beampair link configured by using a different downlink transmit beam and/ora different downlink receive beam may be referred to as a differentdownlink beam pair link. For example, in the uplink, a beam pair linkconfigured by using a different uplink transmit beam and/or a differentuplink receive beam may be referred to as a different uplink beam pairlink. For example, a state in which the terminal apparatus 1 can receivea downlink signal by using multiple downlink transmit beams and/ormultiple downlink receive beams in a certain cell may be referred to asa state of including multiple downlink beam pair links. For example, astate in which the terminal apparatus 1 can transmit an uplink signal byusing multiple uplink transmit beams and/or multiple uplink receivebeams in a certain cell may be referred to as a state of includingmultiple uplink beam pair links.

The concept of the downlink beam pair link according to the presentembodiment will be described.

FIG. 6 illustrates a case where the terminal apparatus 1 and the basestation apparatus 3 configure multiple downlink beam pair links in acell 100. As a first downlink beam pair link, the terminal apparatus 1receives a downlink signal, which is transmitted from the base stationapparatus 3 by using a downlink transmit beam t1, by using a downlinkreceive beam r1. As a second downlink beam pair link, the terminalapparatus 1 receives a downlink signal, which is transmitted from thebase station apparatus 3 by using a downlink transmit beam t2, by usinga downlink receive beam r2. As a third downlink beam pair link, theterminal apparatus 1 receives a downlink signal, which is transmittedfrom the base station apparatus 3 by using a downlink transmit beam t3,by using a downlink receive beam r3. In this case, three downlink beampair links are configured between the terminal apparatus 1 and the basestation apparatus 3, and downlink transmission and/or reception isperformed in all of or a part of the three downlink beam pair links. Forexample, the terminal apparatus 1 measures receive power and/orreception quality of a reference signal in each downlink beam pair link.

Note that multiple downlink beam pair links may be configured by usingmultiple downlink receive beams, for one downlink transmit beam. Notethat multiple downlink beam pair links may be configured by usingmultiple downlink transmit beams, for one downlink receive beam. Notethat one downlink beam pair link may be associated with one downlinktransmit beam, irrespective of which downlink receive beam is used. Notethat one uplink beam pair link may be associated with one uplink receivebeam, irrespective of which uplink transmit beam is used.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a synchronization signalblock (also referred to as a Synchronization Signal (SS) block) and asynchronization signal burst set (also referred to as an SS burst set)according to the present embodiment. FIG. 7 illustrates an example inwhich two synchronization signal blocks are included in a periodicallytransmitted synchronization signal burst set, and each synchronizationsignal block includes four OFDM symbols.

Note that one or more synchronization signal blocks may constitute asynchronization signal burst (referred to as an SS burst), and one ormore synchronization signal bursts may constitute a synchronizationsignal burst set.

The synchronization signal block is a unit block includingsynchronization signals (for example, an NR-PSS and an NR-SSS) and/orNR-PBCHs. In a case where the base station apparatus 3 transmits thesynchronization signals and/or the NR-PBCHs by using one or moresynchronization signal blocks in the synchronization signal burst set,the base station apparatus 3 may use an independent downlink transmitbeam for each synchronization signal block.

FIG. 7 illustrates an example in which the NR-PSS, the NR-SSS, and theNR-PBCHs are time-multiplexed in one synchronization signal block, andthe NR-PBCHs transmitted in a bandwidth wider than a bandwidth for theNR-PSS and/or the NR-SSS are time-multiplexed in two symbols. Note thatthe order in which the NR-PSS, the NR-SSS and/or the NR-PBCHs aremultiplexed in the time domain may be different from the exampleillustrated in FIG. 7. For example, in a case where the NR-PBCHs aretransmitted in two symbols, an OFDM symbol for transmitting an NR-SSSmay be present between the two NR-PBCH symbols.

The synchronization signal burst set may be transmitted periodically.For example, a period used for initial access and a period configuredfor a connected (Connected or RRC_Connected) terminal apparatus may bedefined. The period configured for the connected (Connected orRRC_Connected) terminal apparatus may be configured in the RRC layer.The period configured for the connected (Connected or RRC_Connected)terminal may be a period of a radio resource in the time domain duringwhich transmission is potentially to be performed, and in practice,whether the transmission is to be performed during the period may bedetermined by the base station apparatus 3. The period used for theinitial access may be predefined in specifications or the like.

The synchronization signal burst set may be determined based on a SystemFrame Number (SFN). A starting position (boundary) of thesynchronization signal burst set may be determined based on the SFN andthe period.

The same downlink transmit beam may be assumed to be as applied tosynchronization signal blocks having the same relative time within eachsynchronization signal burst set of multiple synchronization signalburst sets. Antenna ports for synchronization signal blocks having thesame relative time within each synchronization signal burst set ofmultiple synchronization signal burst sets may be assumed to be quasico-located (QCL) with respect to the average delay, the Doppler shift,and the spatial correlation.

For example, the number of synchronization signal blocks may be definedas the number of synchronization signal blocks within thesynchronization signal burst, the synchronization signal burst set, orthe period for the synchronization signal block. The number ofsynchronization signal blocks may indicate the number of beam groups forcell selection within the synchronization signal burst, thesynchronization signal burst set, or the period for the synchronizationsignal block. Here, the beam group may be defined as the number ofsynchronization signal blocks included within the synchronization signalburst, the synchronization signal burst set, or the period for thesynchronization signal block, or the number of different beams.

Notification of an SRS resource according to the present embodiment willbe described.

The base station apparatus 3 transmits an SRS Resource Indicator (SRI)to the terminal apparatus 1. In this manner, the base station apparatus3 notifies the terminal apparatus 1 of one or more resources on whichthe SRS is transmitted. One or more SRS resources are associated with atleast one antenna port and/or one uplink transmit beam (which may betransmit spatial filter configuration or a precoder of the terminalapparatus 1). The terminal apparatus 1 that has received information ofthe SRI may determine an antenna port and/or an uplink transmit beam tobe used for uplink transmission, based on the SRI.

A Random Access procedure according to the present embodiment will bedescribed.

The random access procedure is classified into two procedures, i.e., acontention-based procedure and a non-Contention-based procedure.

The terminal apparatus 1 performs the contention-based random accessprocedure at the time of initial access from a state in which theterminal apparatus 1 is not connected (communicated) with the basestation apparatus 3, and/or at the time of scheduling request in a casewhere transmittable uplink data or transmittable sidelink data occurs inthe terminal apparatus 1 although the terminal apparatus 1 is connectedwith the base station apparatus 3, for example. Note that the purpose ofthe random access is not limited to the above purposes.

A state in which transmittable uplink data occurs in the terminalapparatus 1 may include a state in which a buffer status reportcorresponding to the transmittable uplink data is triggered. A state inwhich transmittable uplink data occurs in the terminal apparatus 1 mayinclude a state in which a scheduling request triggered based on theoccurrence of the transmittable uplink data is pended.

A state in which transmittable sidelink data occurs in the terminalapparatus 1 may include a state in which a buffer status reportcorresponding to the transmittable sidelink data is triggered. A statein which transmittable sidelink data occurs in the terminal apparatus 1may include a state in which a scheduling request triggered based on theoccurrence of the transmittable sidelink data is pended.

In a case where the terminal apparatus 1 receives an NR-PDCCH from thebase station apparatus 3 and the NR-PDCCH includes informationindicating initiation of a random access procedure, the terminalapparatus 1 may perform the non-contention-based random accessprocedure. Note that the information indicating initiation of a randomaccess procedure may be referred to as an NR-PDCCH order, a PDCCH order,message 0, Msg.0, or the like. The non-contention-based random accessprocedure is a procedure in which a random access is performed by usinga preamble corresponding to a random access preamble index indicated byan NR-PDCCH order from the base station apparatus 3. Thenon-contention-based random access procedure is used to promptlyestablish uplink synchronization between the terminal apparatus 1 andthe base station apparatus 3 in a case where a handover and atransmission timing of a mobile station apparatus are not valid althoughthe base station apparatus 3 and the terminal apparatus 1 are connected,for example. Note that the purpose of the random access is not limitedto the above purposes.

Note that, in a case where the random access preamble index indicated bythe NR-PDCCH order is a prescribed value, the terminal apparatus 1 mayperform the contention-based random access procedure in which theterminal apparatus 1 selects one preamble from a set of availablepreambles at random to transmit the selected preamble.

The terminal apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment receivesrandom access configuration information through the higher layer beforeinitiating the random access procedure. The random access configurationinformation may include the following information, or information fordetermining/configuring the following information.

-   -   One or more time/frequency resource sets available for        transmission of a random access preamble (which may also be        referred to as a PRACH resource) (for example, an available        PRACH resource set)    -   One or more random access preamble groups    -   One or more available random access preambles, or one or more        random access preambles available in the multiple random access        preamble groups    -   Window size and Contention Resolution timer        (mac-ContentionResolutionTimer) of a random access response    -   Power ramping step    -   Maximum number of transmissions of preamble transmission    -   Initial transmit power of a preamble    -   Power offset based on a preamble format    -   Maximum number of times of power ramping

Note that the random access configuration information may be associatedwith one synchronization signal block within a synchronization signalburst set. Note that the random access configuration information may beassociated with one of one or more configured CSI-RSs. Note that therandom access configuration information may be associated with onedownlink transmit beam (or beam index).

Note that the terminal apparatus 1 receives one or more random accessconfiguration information through a downlink signal, and each of the oneor more random access configuration information may be associated with asynchronization signal block (which may be a CSI-RS or a downlinktransmit beam). The terminal apparatus 1 may select one synchronizationsignal block out of the one or more received synchronization signalblocks (which may be CSI-RSs or downlink transmit beams), and mayperform a random access procedure by using random access configurationinformation associated with the selected synchronization signal block.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of therandom access configuration information according to the presentembodiment. In FIG. 8, the terminal apparatus 1 receives random accessconfiguration information corresponding to a first synchronizationsignal block and random access configuration information correspondingto a second synchronization signal block. Each of the random accessconfiguration information corresponding to the first synchronizationsignal block and the random access configuration informationcorresponding to the second synchronization signal block includes apreamble group, a frequency/time resource set, and other informationthat are available for the random access.

Note that FIG. 8 illustrates a case where the terminal apparatus 1receives two random access configuration information corresponding totwo synchronization signal blocks. However, the terminal apparatus 1 mayreceive three or more random access configuration informationcorresponding to three or more synchronization signal blocks.

Note that the example of FIG. 8 illustrates a case where eachinformation included in the random access configuration information ispresent for each synchronization signal block. However, a part ofinformation included in the random access configuration information maybe configured to be shared by multiple synchronization signal blocks.For example, a part of the random access configuration information maybe information configured for each synchronization signal block, CSI-RS,or downlink transmit beam (transmit filter configuration of the basestation apparatus 3), and the rest of the random access configurationinformation may be information configured for each cell.

For example, one or more time/frequency resource sets available fortransmission of a random access preamble included in the random accessconfiguration information may be configured for each synchronizationsignal block, CSI-RS, and/or downlink transmit beam. The terminalapparatus 1 may select one or more time/frequency resource setsavailable for transmission of a random access preamble, based on thereceived synchronization signal block, CSI-RS, and/or downlink transmitbeam.

For example, each of one or more random access preamble groups includedin the random access configuration information may be associated witheach synchronization signal block, CSI-RS, and/or downlink transmitbeam. The terminal apparatus 1 may select a random access preamblegroup, based on the received synchronization signal block, CSI-RS,and/or downlink transmit beam.

Note that the example of FIG. 8 illustrates a case where one randomaccess configuration information is associated with one synchronizationsignal block. However, the one random access configuration informationmay be associated with one index (for example, a synchronization signalblock index, a CSI-RS index, or a downlink transmit beam index, forexample).

Note that the terminal apparatus 1 may receive one or more downlinksignals each transmitted by using one downlink transmit beam, mayreceive random access configuration information associated with onedownlink signal out of the one or more received downlink signals, andmay perform a random access procedure, based on the received randomaccess configuration information. The terminal apparatus 1 may receiveone or more synchronization signal blocks within a synchronizationsignal burst set, may receive random access configuration informationassociated with one synchronization signal block out of the one or morereceived synchronization signal blocks, and may perform a random accessprocedure, based on the received random access configurationinformation. The terminal apparatus 1 may receive one or more CSI-RSs,may receive random access configuration information associated with oneCSI-RS out of the one or more received CSI-RSs, and may perform a randomaccess procedure, based on the received random access configurationinformation.

The one or more random access configuration information may include onerandom access channel configuration (RACH-Config) and/or one physicalrandom access channel configuration (PRACH-Config).

A parameter related to a random access for each downlink transmit beammay be included in the random access channel configuration.

A parameter related to a physical random access channel of each downlinktransmit beam (PRACH configuration index, one or more time/frequencyresources available for transmission of a random access preamble, or thelike) may be included in the physical random access channelconfiguration.

One random access configuration information may indicate a parameterrelated to a random access corresponding to one downlink transmit beam,and multiple random access configuration information may indicateparameters related to multiple random accesses corresponding to multipledownlink transmit beams.

One random access configuration information may indicate a parameterrelated to a physical random access corresponding to one downlinktransmit beam, and may indicate parameters related to multiple randomaccesses corresponding to multiple downlink transmit beams.

In a case where a corresponding beam is selected, random accessconfiguration information corresponding to the beam (random accesschannel configuration corresponding to the beam, or physical randomaccess channel configuration corresponding to the beam) may be selected.

Note that terminal apparatus 1 may receive one or more random accessconfiguration information from a base station apparatus 3 and/or atransmission reception point 4 different from a base station apparatus 3and/or a transmission reception point 4 that transmits a random accesspreamble. For example, based on at least one random access configurationinformation received from a first base station apparatus 3, the terminalapparatus 1 may transmit a random access preamble to a second basestation apparatus 3.

Note that the base station apparatus 3 may receive a random accesspreamble transmitted by a terminal apparatus 1, and may therebydetermine a downlink transmit beam to be used in a case that the basestation apparatus 3 transmits a downlink signal to the terminalapparatus 1. The terminal apparatus 1 may transmit a random accesspreamble by using a time/frequency resource indicated by random accessconfiguration information associated with a certain downlink transmitbeam. Based on the random access preamble received from the terminalapparatus 1 and/or the time/frequency resource in which the randomaccess preamble is received, the base station apparatus 3 may determinea downlink transmit beam to be used in a case that the base stationapparatus 3 transmits a downlink signal to the terminal apparatus 1.

The following will describe a selection rule of a case where theterminal apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment receivesmultiple random access configuration information, and selects one randomaccess configuration information to be used for a random accessprocedure from the multiple random access configuration information.

The terminal apparatus 1 may select random access configurationinformation to be used for a random access procedure, based on channelcharacteristics between the terminal apparatus 1 and the base stationapparatus 3. The terminal apparatus 1 may select random accessconfiguration information to be used for a random access procedure,based on channel characteristics measured by using a synchronizationsignal block or a downlink reference signal received from the basestation apparatus 3.

The terminal apparatus 1 may select one random access configurationinformation at random from multiple received random access configurationinformation.

The terminal apparatus 1 may select one random access configurationinformation from multiple received random access configurationinformation, based on a downlink signal received from the base stationapparatus 3. Note that the downlink signal may be a downlink signalreceived from a base station apparatus 3 being a transmissiondestination of a random access preamble, or may be a downlink signalreceived from a different base station apparatus 3. For example, randomaccess configuration information selected based on a downlink signalfrom a first base station apparatus 3 that forms a first cell may beused for a random access procedure with a second base station apparatus3 that forms a second cell.

As one or more available frequency/time resources included in the randomaccess configuration information, a subcarrier index, a resource blockindex, a subframe number, a system frame number, a symbol number, and/ora preamble format, in each of which a random access preamble can betransmitted, may be configured.

A random access procedure of a case where the terminal apparatus 1receives an NR-PDCCH order from the base station apparatus 3 is, asillustrated in FIG. 9, achieved by transmission and/or reception ofmultiple messages between the terminal apparatus 1 and the base stationapparatus 3.

Message 0 (S801)

The base station apparatus 3 transmits an NR-PDCCH order to the terminalapparatus 1 on an NR-PDCCH, and indicates the terminal apparatus 1 toperform a random access procedure.

Information indicated by the NR-PDCCH order may include preamble indexinformation, mask index information, SRS Resource Indicator (SRI)information, synchronization signal block re-selection indicationinformation (SS block Re-selection Indicator), random accessconfiguration re-selection indication information (Random AccessConfiguration Re-selection Indicator), and/or CSI-RS selectionindication information.

The preamble index information is information indicating one or morepreamble indexes out of preamble indexes of available random accesspreamble indexes indicated by the random access configurationinformation. Note that, in a case where the preamble index informationis a prescribed value, the terminal apparatus 1 may select one randomaccess preamble from one or more available random access preambles atrandom.

The mask index information is information indicating an index of a PRACHresource available for transmission of a random access preamble in thetime domain and/or the frequency domain. Note that a time resourceand/or a frequency resource indicated by the mask index information maybe one specific resource or may indicate selectable multiple resources,or different indexes may separately indicate one specific resource andselectable multiple resources.

Note that the preamble index information and the mask index informationmay be indicated by one index information. For example, one index mayindicate all of or a part of a preamble (which may be referred to as asequence or a code), a time resource, and a frequency resource availablefor transmission of a random access preamble by the terminal apparatus1.

Note that, in the preamble index information and/or the mask indexinformation, a different value may be configured for eachsynchronization signal block. For example, the terminal apparatus 1 mayselect one synchronization signal block out of one or more receivedsynchronization signal blocks, and may transmit a random access preambleby using preamble index information and/or mask index informationassociated with the selected synchronization signal block.

Note that, in the preamble index information and/or the mask indexinformation, a common value may be configured for multiplesynchronization signal blocks. For example, the terminal apparatus 1 mayselect one synchronization signal block out of one or more receivedsynchronization signal blocks, may select random access configurationassociated with the selected synchronization signal block, and maytransmit a random access preamble corresponding to the received preambleindex information and/or mask index information to an available preambleand/or time/frequency resource.

The SRI information is information for notifying of at least a part ofindex(es) of one or more SRS transmission resources configured by thebase station apparatus 3. Note that the SRI information may be bitmapinformation corresponding to one or more SRS transmission resourcesconfigured by the base station apparatus 3.

The terminal apparatus 1 may determine an antenna port for transmittinga random access preamble, based on received SRI information. Note that,in a case where the SRI information indicates multiple SRS transmissionresources, the terminal apparatus 1 may transmit a random accesspreamble in each of multiple antenna ports based on the multiple SRStransmission resources. Note that the terminal apparatus 1 may considerthat an antenna port associated with an SRS transmission resourceindicated by the SRI information is an antenna port available fortransmission and retransmission of a random access preamble. Theterminal apparatus 1 may transmit a random access preamble on an uplinktransmit beam (transmit spatial filter configuration) associated withthe SRS transmission resource indicated by the SRI information. Notethat an antenna port used by the terminal apparatus 1 that has receivedthe SRI information through the NR-PDCCH order for transmission of arandom access preamble may be QCL with an antenna port associated withthe SRS transmission resource indicated by the SRI information.

The synchronization signal block re-selection indication information isinformation indicating whether or not to re-select a synchronizationsignal block used to perform a random access procedure, for the terminalapparatus 1 that has received the NR-PDCCH order.

In a case where the synchronization signal block re-selection indicationinformation is indicated by the NR-PDCCH order, the terminal apparatus 1may monitor one or more synchronization signal blocks within asynchronization signal burst set, and may transmit a random accesspreamble by using random access configuration associated with theselected one synchronization signal block.

Note that information indicated by the synchronization signal blockre-selection indication information may be other information indicatedby the NR-PDCCH order. For example, the information indicated by thesynchronization signal block re-selection indication information may beincluded in the preamble index information. In a case where a preambleindex indicated by the NR-PDCCH order is a prescribed value, theterminal apparatus 1 may re-select a synchronization signal block.

The random access configuration re-selection indication information isinformation indicating whether or not to re-select random accessconfiguration information used to perform a random access procedure, forthe terminal apparatus 1 that has received the NR-PDCCH order. Theterminal apparatus 1 that has received the random access configurationre-selection indication information through the NR-PDCCH order mayselect one random access configuration information out of one or morerandom access configuration information received in a downlink signal,and may perform transmission of a random access preamble, based on theselected random access configuration information.

Note that information indicated by the random access configurationre-selection indication information may be indicated by otherinformation indicated by the NR-PDCCH order. For example, informationindicated by the random access configuration re-selection indicationinformation may be included in the preamble index information. In a casewhere a preamble index indicated by the NR-PDCCH order is a prescribedvalue, the terminal apparatus 1 may re-select random accessconfiguration information.

The CSI-RS selection indication information is information indicatingselection of one CSI-RS used to perform a random access procedure out ofone or more configured CSI-RSs, for the terminal apparatus 1 that hasreceived the NR-PDCCH order. The CSI-RS selection indication informationmay be information indicating at least a part of one or more CSI-RSsconfigured by the base station apparatus 3 for the terminal apparatus 1.

In a case where the CSI-RS selection indication information is indicatedby the NR-PDCCH order, the terminal apparatus 1 may monitor one or moreconfigured CSI-RSs, and may transmit a random access preamble by usingrandom access configuration associated with the selected one CSI-RS.

Note that information indicated by the CSI-RS selection indicationinformation may be other information indicated by the NR-PDCCH order.For example, the information indicated by the CSI-RS selectionindication information may be included in the preamble indexinformation. In a case where a preamble index indicated by the NR-PDCCHorder is a prescribed value, the terminal apparatus 1 may monitor one ormore configured CSI-RSs, and may transmit a random access preamble byusing random access configuration associated with the selected oneCSI-RS.

Note that one common index information may be used for the preambleindex information, the SRI information, the synchronization signal blockre-selection indication information, the random access configurationre-selection indication information, and/or the CSI-RS selectionindication information. For example, random access configurationinformation may be re-selected in a case where the common indexinformation is a first value, and one or more CSI-RSs may be monitoredin a case where the common index information is a second value.

Message 1 (S802)

The terminal apparatus 1 that has received the NR-PDCCH order transmitsa preamble for a random access to the base station apparatus 3 on aPhysical Random Access Channel (PRACH). This transmitted preamble may bereferred to as a random access preamble, message 1, or Msg 1. The randomaccess preamble is configured to notify the base station apparatus 3 ofinformation with multiple sequences. For example, in a case where 64types of sequences are available, 6-bit information can be provided tothe base station apparatus 3. The information is provided as a RandomAccess Preamble Identifier. A preamble sequence is selected from apreamble sequence set using a preamble index.

Note that the terminal apparatus 1 transmits a random access preamblethat is indicated in a case where the NR-PDCCH order indicates apreamble index indicating one random access preamble. Note that, in acase where a preamble index indicating a prescribed value is indicatedby the NR-PDCCH order, the terminal apparatus 1 may select one randomaccess preamble from available random access preambles at random.

Note that, in a case where a mask index is indicated by the NR-PDCCHorder, the terminal apparatus 1 transmits a random access preamble byusing a frequency resource and/or a time resource corresponding to theindicated mask index.

Note that, in a case where SRI configuration information is indicated bythe NR-PDCCH order, the terminal apparatus 1 transmits one or morerandom access preambles by using an antenna port and/or an uplinktransmit beam corresponding to one or more SRS transmission resourcesindicated by the SRI configuration information.

Message 2 (S803)

The base station apparatus 3 that has received a random access preamblegenerates a random access response including an uplink grant forindicating the terminal apparatus 1 to perform transmission, andtransmits the generated random access response to the terminal apparatus1 on a downlink PSCH. The random access response may be referred to asmessage 2 or Msg 2. Based on the received random access preamble, thebase station apparatus 3 calculates a transmission timing differencebetween the terminal apparatus 1 and the base station apparatus 3, andthen includes transmission timing adjustment information (Timing AdvanceCommand) for adjusting the difference in message 2. The base stationapparatus 3 includes a random access preamble identifier correspondingto the received random access preamble in message 2. The base stationapparatus 3 transmits a Random Access-Radio Network Temporary Identity((RA-RNTI): random access response identification information) forindicating a random access response addressed to the terminal apparatus1 that has transmitted a random access preamble, on the downlink PCCH.The RA-RNTI is determined according to frequency and time locationinformation of a physical random access channel on which the randomaccess preamble is transmitted. Here, in message 2 (downlink PSCH), anindex of an uplink transmit beam that has been used to transmit therandom access preamble may be included. Information for determining anuplink transmit beam that is to be used to transmit message 3 may betransmitted by using the downlink PCCH and/or message 2 (downlink PSCH).Here, the information for determining an uplink transmit beam that is tobe used to transmit message 3 may include information indicating adifference (adjustment or correction) from a precoding index that hasbeen used to transmit the random access preamble.

Message 3 (S804)

The terminal apparatus 1 that has transmitted a random access preamblemonitors a downlink PCCH for the random access response identified by anRA-RNTI, within multiple subframe periods (referred to as RA responsewindows) after the transmission of the random access preamble. In a casewhere the terminal apparatus 1 that has transmitted a random accesspreamble detects a relevant RA-RNTI, the terminal apparatus 1 decodesthe random access response mapped to the downlink PSCH. The terminalapparatus 1 that has successfully decoded the random access responseconfirms whether or not a random access preamble identifiercorresponding to the transmitted random access preamble is included inthe random access response. In a case where the random access preambleidentifier is included, synchronization difference is corrected by usingtransmission timing adjustment information indicated by the randomaccess response. The terminal apparatus 1 transmits data stored in abuffer to the base station apparatus 3 by using an uplink grant includedin the received random access response. In this case, the datatransmitted by using an uplink grant is referred to as message 3 or Msg3.

In a case where the successfully decoded random access response is thefirst random access response successfully received in a series of randomaccess procedures, the terminal apparatus 1 includes information(C-RNTI) for identifying the terminal apparatus 1 in message 3 to betransmitted, and transmits message 3 to the base station apparatus 3.

Message 4 (S805)

In a case where the base station apparatus 3 receives uplinktransmission on a resource allocated for message 3 of the terminalapparatus 1 in the random access response, the base station apparatus 3detects a C-RNTI MAC CE included in received message 3. In a case wherethe base station apparatus 3 establishes connection with the terminalapparatus 1, the base station apparatus 3 transmits a PCCH to thedetected C-RNTI. In a case where the base station apparatus 3 transmitsa PCCH to the detected C-RNTI, the base station apparatus 3 includes anuplink grant in the PCCH. Such PCCHs transmitted by the base stationapparatus 3 are referred to as message 4, Msg 4, or a contentionresolution message.

The terminal apparatus 1 that has transmitted message 3 starts acontention resolution timer that defines a period for monitoring message4 from the base station apparatus 3, and attempts to receive a downlinkPCCH transmitted from the base station within the timer. In a case wherethe terminal apparatus 1 that has transmitted a C-RNTI MAC CE in message3 receives a PCCH addressed to the transmitted C-RNTI from the basestation apparatus 3, and an uplink grant for new transmission isincluded in the PCCH, the terminal apparatus 1 considers that contentionresolution with another terminal apparatus 1 has succeeded, stops thecontention resolution timer, and ends the random access procedure. In acase where the terminal apparatus 1 cannot confirm, within the timerperiod, that the terminal apparatus 1 received a PCCH addressed to theC-RNTI that the terminal apparatus 1 itself transmitted in message 3,the terminal apparatus 1 considers that contention resolution did notsucceed, transmits a random access preamble again, and continues therandom access procedure. Note that, in a case where contentionresolution does not succeed after a prescribed number of times ofrepeated transmission of a random access preamble, the terminalapparatus 1 considers that the random access has a problem, andindicates a random access problem to the higher layer. For example, thehigher layer may reset a MAC entity, based on the random access problem.In a case where a reset of a MAC entity is requested by the higherlayer, the terminal apparatus 1 stops the random access procedure.

Through transmission and/or reception of the above five messages, theterminal apparatus 1 can establish synchronization with the base stationapparatus 3, and can perform uplink data transmission to the basestation apparatus 3.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of random access preambletransmission processing of the terminal apparatus 1 according to thepresent embodiment.

The terminal apparatus 1 receives a signal including information(NR-PDCCH order) indicating initiation of a random access procedure fromthe base station apparatus 3 (S1001). The terminal apparatus 1 detectsinformation of an SRS resource (which may be SRI information, forexample) from the received information indicating initiation of a randomaccess procedure (S1002). The terminal apparatus 1 determines an antennaport to be used for transmission of a random access preamble, based onthe detected information of an SRS resource (S1003). The terminalapparatus 1 transmits the random access preamble from the determinedantenna port (S1004).

FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating an example of random access preamblereception processing of the base station apparatus 3 according to thepresent embodiment.

The base station apparatus 3 generates information (NR-PDCCH order)indicating initiation of a random access procedure including informationof an SRS resource (which may be SRI information, for example) (S2001).The base station apparatus 3 transmits a signal including the generatedinformation indicating initiation of a random access procedure to theterminal apparatus 1 (S2002). The base station apparatus 3 monitors arandom access preamble based on the transmitted information of an SRSresource (S2003).

FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating another example of random accesspreamble transmission processing of the terminal apparatus 1 accordingto the present embodiment.

The terminal apparatus 1 receives a signal including indicationinformation (NR-PDCCH order) indicating initiation of a random accessprocedure from the base station apparatus 3 (S3001). The terminalapparatus 1 determines whether one random access configurationinformation out of one or more random access configuration informationis to be re-selected, based on the received indication information(S3002). In accordance with a determination that random accessconfiguration information is to be re-selected (S3003—YES), the terminalapparatus 1 selects one random access configuration information out ofthe one or more received random access configuration information(S3004), and the processing proceeds to Step S3005. In accordance with adetermination that random access configuration information (S3003-NO) isnot to be re-reselected, the terminal apparatus 1 uses random accessconfiguration information that has already been selected, and theprocessing proceeds to Step S3005. The terminal apparatus 1 transmits arandom access preamble, based on the selected random accessconfiguration information (S3005).

FIG. 13 is a flowchart illustrating another example of random accesspreamble reception processing of the base station apparatus 3 accordingto the present embodiment.

The base station apparatus 3 generates information (NR-PDCCH order)indicating initiation of a random access procedure including informationindicating, for the terminal apparatus 1, whether or not to re-selectone random access configuration information out of multiple randomaccess configuration information (S4001). The base station apparatus 3transmits a signal including the generated information indicatinginitiation of a random access procedure to the terminal apparatus 1(S4002). The base station apparatus 3 monitors a random access preambleassociated with each of the multiple random access configurationinformation (S4003).

Configurations of apparatuses according to the present embodiment willbe described below.

FIG. 14 is a schematic block diagram illustrating a configuration of theterminal apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment. As illustratedFIG. 14, the terminal apparatus 1 includes a radio transmission and/orreception unit 10 and a higher layer processing unit 14. The radiotransmission and/or reception unit 10 includes an antenna unit 11, aRadio Frequency (RF) unit 12, and a baseband unit 13. The higher layerprocessing unit 14 includes a medium access control layer processingunit 15 and a radio resource control layer processing unit 16. The radiotransmission and/or reception unit 10 is also referred to as atransmitter, a receiver, a monitor unit, or a physical layer processingunit. The higher layer processing unit 14 is also referred to as ameasuring unit or a controller.

The higher layer processing unit 14 outputs uplink data (which may bereferred to as a transport block) generated by a user operation or thelike, to the radio transmission and/or reception unit 10. The higherlayer processing unit 14 performs processing for some or all of theMedium Access Control (MAC) layer, the Packet Data Convergence Protocol(PDCP) layer, the Radio Link Control (RLC) layer, and the Radio ResourceControl (RRC) layer. The higher layer processing unit 14 may have afunction of determining whether or not to re-select one synchronizationsignal block from one or more synchronization signal blocks, based oninformation indicating initiation of a received random access procedure.The higher layer processing unit 14 may have a function of determiningwhether or not to re-select one random access configuration informationfrom one or more random access configuration information, based oninformation indicating initiation of a received random access procedure.

The medium access control layer processing unit 15 included in thehigher layer processing unit 14 performs processing of the medium accesscontrol layer (MAC layer). The medium access control layer processingunit 15 controls transmission of a scheduling request, based on varioustypes of configuration information/parameters managed by the radioresource control layer processing unit 16.

The radio resource control layer processing unit 16 included in thehigher layer processing unit 14 performs processing of the radioresource control layer (RRC layer). The radio resource control layerprocessing unit 16 manages various types of configurationinformation/parameters of its own apparatus. The radio resource controllayer processing unit 16 sets various types of configurationinformation/parameters, based on higher layer signaling received fromthe base station apparatus 3. Namely, the radio resource control layerprocessing unit 16 sets various types of configurationinformation/parameters, based on information indicating the varioustypes of configuration information/parameters received from the basestation apparatus 3.

The radio transmission and/or reception unit 10 performs processing ofthe physical layer, such as modulation, demodulation, coding, anddecoding. The radio transmission and/or reception unit 10 demultiplexes,demodulates, and decodes a signal received from the base stationapparatus 3, and outputs the information resulting from the decoding tothe higher layer processing unit 14. The radio transmission and/orreception unit 10 generates a transmit signal by modulating and codingdata, and transmits the generated transmit signal to the base stationapparatus 3. The radio transmission and/or reception unit 10 may have afunction of receiving one or more synchronization signal blocks in acertain cell. The radio transmission and/or reception unit 10 may have afunction of receiving a signal including indication informationindicating initiation of a random access procedure from the base stationapparatus 3. The radio transmission and/or reception unit 10 may have afunction of receiving multiple reference signals. The radio transmissionand/or reception unit 10 may have a function of determining an antennaport to be used for transmission of a random access preamble, based oninformation of an SRS resource received from the base station apparatus3.

The RF unit 12 converts (down-converts) a signal received via theantenna unit 11 into a baseband signal by orthogonal demodulation, andremoves unnecessary frequency components. The RF unit 12 outputs theprocessed analog signal to the baseband unit.

The baseband unit 13 converts the analog signal input from the RF unit12 into a digital signal. The baseband unit 13 removes a portioncorresponding to a Cyclic Prefix (CP) from the digital signal resultingfrom the conversion, performs Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on the signalfrom which the CP has been removed, and extracts a signal in thefrequency domain.

The baseband unit 13 generates an OFDM symbol by performing Inverse FastFourier Transform (IFFT) on the data, adds CP to the generated OFDMsymbol, generates a baseband digital signal, and converts the basebanddigital signal into an analog signal. The baseband unit 13 outputs theanalog signal resulting from the conversion, to the RF unit 12.

The RF unit 12 removes unnecessary frequency components from the analogsignal input from the baseband unit 13 using a low-pass filter,up-converts the analog signal into a signal of a carrier frequency, andtransmits the up-converted signal via the antenna unit 11. The RF unit12 amplifies power. The RF unit 12 may have a function of determiningtransmit power of the uplink signal and/or the uplink channel to betransmitted in a serving cell. The RF unit 12 is also referred to as atransmit power control unit.

FIG. 15 is a schematic block diagram illustrating a configuration of thebase station apparatus 3 according to the present embodiment. Asillustrated FIG. 15, the base station apparatus 3 includes a radiotransmission and/or reception unit 30 and a higher layer processing unit34. The radio transmission and/or reception unit 30 includes an antennaunit 31, an RF unit 32, and a baseband unit 33. The higher layerprocessing unit 34 includes a medium access control layer processingunit 35 and a radio resource control layer processing unit 36. The radiotransmission and/or reception unit 30 is also referred to as atransmitter, a receiver, or a physical layer processing unit. Acontroller that controls operations of each unit, based on variousconditions, may be separately provided. The higher layer processing unit34 is also referred to as a terminal control unit.

The higher layer processing unit 34 performs processing for some or allof the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, the Packet Data ConvergenceProtocol (PDCP) layer, the Radio Link Control (RLC) layer, and the RadioResource Control (RRC) layer. The higher layer processing unit 34 mayhave a function of generating information indicating the terminalapparatus 1 to initiate a random access procedure.

The medium access control layer processing unit 35 included in thehigher layer processing unit 34 performs processing of the MAC layer.The medium access control layer processing unit 35 performs processingassociated with a scheduling request, based on various types ofconfiguration information/parameters managed by the radio resourcecontrol layer processing unit 36.

The radio resource control layer processing unit 36 included in thehigher layer processing unit 34 performs processing of the RRC layer.The radio resource control layer processing unit 36 generates, oracquires from a higher node, downlink data (transport block) allocatedon a physical downlink shared channel, system information, an RRCmessage, a MAC Control Element (CE), and the like, and outputs thegenerated or acquired data to the radio transmission and/or receptionunit 30. The radio resource control layer processing unit 36 managesvarious types of configuration information/parameters for each of theterminal apparatuses 1. The radio resource control layer processing unit36 may set various types of configuration information/parameters foreach of the terminal apparatuses 1 via higher layer signaling. That is,the radio resource control layer processing unit 36 transmits/broadcastsinformation indicating various types of configurationinformation/parameters. The radio resource control layer processing unit36 may transmit/broadcast information for identifying a configuration ofmultiple reference signals in a certain cell.

The radio transmission and/or reception unit 30 has a function oftransmitting multiple reference signals. The radio transmission and/orreception unit 30 may have a function of receiving a scheduling requesttransmitted from the terminal apparatus 1 by using any one of multiplescheduling request resources configured by the higher layer processingunit 34. The radio transmission and/or reception unit 30 may have afunction of transmitting one or more synchronization signal blocks. Theradio transmission and/or reception unit 30 may have a function oftransmitting a signal including information indicating the terminalapparatus 1 to initiate a random access procedure. The radiotransmission and/or reception unit 30 may have a function ofreceiving/monitoring a random access preamble transmitted from theterminal apparatus 1. Some of the functions of the radio transmissionand/or reception unit 30 other than those described above are similar tothe functions of the radio transmission and/or reception unit 10, andhence description thereof is omitted. Note that, in a case where thebase station apparatus 3 is connected to one or more transmissionreception points 4, some or all of the functions of the radiotransmission and/or reception unit 30 may be included in each of thetransmission reception points 4.

The higher layer processing unit 34 transmits (transfers) or receivescontrol messages or user data between the base station apparatuses 3 orbetween a higher network apparatus (MME, Serving-GW (S-GW)) and the basestation apparatus 3. In FIG. 9, other constituent elements of the basestation apparatus 3, a transmission path of data (control information)between the constituent elements, and the like are omitted. However, itis apparent that the base station apparatus 3 is provided with multipleblocks, as its constituent elements, which have other functionsnecessary for allowing operation as the base station apparatus 3. Forexample, a Radio Resource Management layer processing unit and anapplication layer processing unit exist in the higher layer processingunit 34. The higher layer processing unit 34 may have a function ofconfiguring multiple scheduling request resources corresponding torespective multiple reference signals transmitted from the radiotransmission and/or reception unit 30.

Note that “unit” in the drawings refers to a constituent element torealize the functions and the procedures of the terminal apparatus 1 andthe base station apparatus 3, which is also represented by a term suchas a section, a circuit, a constituting apparatus, a device, and a unit.

Each of the units denoted by the reference signs 10 to 16 included inthe terminal apparatus 1 may be configured as a circuit. Each of theunits denoted by the reference signs 30 to 36 included in the basestation apparatus 3 may be configured as a circuit.

Aspects of the terminal apparatus 1 and the base station apparatus 3according to the present invention will be described below.

(1) A first aspect of the present invention is a terminal apparatus 1including a receiver 10 configured to receive a signal includingindication information (which may be an NR-PDCCH order) indicatinginitiation of a random access procedure from a base station apparatus 3,and a transmitter 10 configured to transmit the one or more randomaccess preambles, based on the indication information. The transmitter10 determines an antenna port to be used for transmission of the randomaccess preambles, based on information of the SRS resource (which may beSRI information) included in the indication information.

(2) A second aspect of the present invention is a terminal apparatus 1including a receiver 10 configured to receive one or more random accessconfiguration information, a controller 14 configured to select onerandom access configuration information from the one or more randomaccess configuration information, and a transmitter 10 configured totransmit a random access preamble based on any one of the one or morerandom access configuration information. The receiver 10 receives asignal including indication information (which may be an NR-PDCCH order)indicating initiation of a random access procedure. The controller 14determines whether or not to re-select one random access configurationinformation to be used for transmission of the random access preamblefrom the one or more random access configuration information, based onthe indication information.

(3) A third aspect of the present invention is a base station apparatus3 including a controller 34 configured to generate indicationinformation (which may be an NR-PDCCH order) indicating initiation of arandom access procedure including information of an SRS resource (whichmay be SRI information), a transmitter 30 configured to transmit asignal including the indication information to a terminal apparatus 1,and a receiver 30 configured to monitor a random access preamble basedon the information of the SRS resource.

(4) A fourth aspect of the present invention is a base station apparatus3 including a controller 34 configured to generate indicationinformation (which may be an NR-PDCCH order) indicating initiation of arandom access procedure including information (which may be randomaccess configuration information re-selection indication information)indicating, for the terminal apparatus 1, whether or not to re-selectone random access configuration information out of multiple randomaccess configuration information, a transmitter 30 configured totransmit a signal including the indication information to the terminalapparatus 1, and a receiver 30 configured to monitor a random accesspreamble associated with each of the multiple random accessconfiguration information.

A program running on an apparatus according to the present invention mayserve as a program that controls a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and thelike to cause a computer to operate in such a manner as to realize thefunctions of the above-described embodiment according to the presentinvention. Programs or the information handled by the programs aretemporarily stored in a volatile memory such as a Random Access Memory(RAM), a non-volatile memory such as a flash memory, a Hard Disk Drive(HDD), or any other storage device system.

Note that a program for realizing the functions of the embodimentaccording to the present invention may be recorded in acomputer-readable recording medium. This configuration may be realizedby causing a computer system to read the program recorded on therecording medium for execution. It is assumed that the “computer system”herein refers to a computer system built into the apparatuses, and thecomputer system includes an operating system and hardware componentssuch as a peripheral device. Furthermore, the “computer-readablerecording medium” may be any of a semiconductor recording medium, anoptical recording medium, a magnetic recording medium, a mediumdynamically retaining the program for a short time, or any othercomputer readable recording medium.

Furthermore, each functional block or various characteristics of theapparatuses used in the above-described embodiment may be implemented orperformed on an electric circuit, for example, an integrated circuit ormultiple integrated circuits. An electric circuit designed to performthe functions described in the present specification may include ageneral-purpose processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), anApplication Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field ProgrammableGate Array (FPGA), or other programmable logic devices, discrete gatesor transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or a combinationthereof. The general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor or may bea processor of known type, a controller, a micro-controller, or a statemachine instead. The above-mentioned electric circuit may include adigital circuit, or may include an analog circuit. Furthermore, in acase where with advances in semiconductor technology, a circuitintegration technology appears that replaces the present integratedcircuits, it is also possible to use a new integrated circuit based onthe technology according to one or more aspects of the presentinvention.

Note that the invention of the present patent application is not limitedto the above-described embodiment. In the embodiment, apparatuses havebeen described as an example, but the invention of the presentapplication is not limited to these apparatuses, and is applicable to aterminal apparatus or a communication apparatus of a fixed-type or astationary-type electronic apparatus installed indoors or outdoors, forexample, an AV apparatus, a kitchen apparatus, a cleaning or washingmachine, an air-conditioning apparatus, office equipment, a vendingmachine, and other household apparatuses, for example.

The embodiments of the present invention have been described in detailabove referring to the drawings, but the specific configuration is notlimited to the embodiments and includes, for example, an amendment to adesign that falls within the scope that does not depart from the gist ofthe present invention. Various modifications are possible within thescope of the present invention defined by claims, and embodiments thatare made by suitably combining technical means disclosed according tothe different embodiments are also included in the technical scope ofthe present invention. Furthermore, a configuration in which constituentelements, described in the respective embodiments and having mutuallythe same effects, are substituted for one another is also included inthe technical scope of the present invention.

CROSS-REFERENCE OF RELATED APPLICATION

The present application claims the benefit of priority to JapanesePatent Application No. 2017-117489, filed on Jun. 15, 2017, the contentsof which are incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST

-   1 (1A, 1B) Terminal apparatus-   3 Base station apparatus-   4 Transmission reception point (TRP)-   10 Radio transmission and/or reception unit-   11 Antenna unit-   12 RF unit-   13 Baseband unit-   14 Higher layer processing unit-   15 Medium access control layer processing unit-   16 Radio resource control layer processing unit-   30 Radio transmission and/or reception unit-   31 Antenna unit-   32 RF unit-   33 Baseband unit-   34 Higher layer processing unit-   35 Medium access control layer processing unit-   36 Radio resource control layer processing unit-   50 Transceiver unit (TXRU)-   51 Phase shifter-   52 Antenna element

1. A terminal apparatus comprising: a receiver configured to receivemask index information indicating one or more Physical Random AccessChannel (PRACH) resources available for transmission of a random accesspreamble; and a transmitter configured to transmit the random accesspreamble on one of the one or more PRACH resources, wherein each of theone or more PRACH resources is a resource associated with one of one ormore blocks, and each of the one or more blocks includes four OrthogonalFrequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, to which at least asynchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel are included. 2.A base station apparatus comprising: a transmitter configured totransmit mask index information indicating one or more Physical RandomAccess Channel (PRACH) resources available for transmission of a randomaccess preamble; and a receiver configured to receive the random accesspreamble on one of the one or more PRACH resources, wherein each of theone or more PRACH resources is a resource associated with one of one ormore blocks, and each of the one or more blocks includes four OrthogonalFrequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, to which at least asynchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel are included. 3.A communication method used for a terminal apparatus, the communicationmethod comprising: receiving mask index information indicating one ormore Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) resources available fortransmission of a random access preamble; and transmitting the randomaccess preamble on one of the one or more PRACH resources, wherein eachof the one or more PRACH resources is a resource associated with one ofone or more blocks, and each of the one or more blocks includes fourOrthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, to which atleast a synchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel areincluded.
 4. A communication method used for a base station apparatus,the communication method comprising: transmitting mask index informationindicating one or more Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) resourcesavailable for transmission of a random access preamble; and receivingthe random access preamble on one of the one or more PRACH resources,wherein each of the one or more PRACH resources is a resource associatedwith one of one or more blocks, and each of the one or more blocksincludes four Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols,to which at least a synchronization signal and a physical broadcastchannel are included.
 5. An integrated circuit implemented on a terminalapparatus, the integrated circuit causing the terminal apparatus toperform: receiving mask index information indicating one or morePhysical Random Access Channel (PRACH) resources available fortransmission of a random access preamble; and transmitting the randomaccess preamble on one of the one or more PRACH resources, wherein eachof the one or more PRACH resources is a resource associated with one ofone or more blocks, and each of the one or more blocks includes fourOrthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, to which atleast a synchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel areincluded.
 6. An integrated circuit implemented on a base stationapparatus, the integrated circuit causing the base station apparatus toperform: transmitting mask index information indicating one or morePhysical Random Access Channel (PRACH) resources available fortransmission of a random access preamble; and receiving the randomaccess preamble on one of the one or more PRACH resources, wherein eachof the one or more PRACH resources is a resource associated with one ofone or more blocks, and each of the one or more blocks includes fourOrthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, to which atleast a synchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel areincluded.